This Is the Most Expensive Restaurant in the World

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Jul 6, 7:55AM EDT

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How much does a meal cost? For people who eat at home, that is primarily a question of ingredients. During the pandemic, that is the way much of America, and the world, ate. On the other hand, many people eat out, at least part of the time. Eating out has made a comeback in many restaurants, both inside and outside the United States, particularly where vaccination rates are high.

Eating out can be cheap. A full meal at McDonald’s can cost as little as $5, or $10 at the most for most individual breakfasts or dinners. Many cities of any size have more expensive restaurants, presumably with better food and better service.

The cost of a meal at a restaurant is not the same from country to country, particularly when a country has a high cost of living. The conversation moves back to ingredients, as food from places far from the restaurant has added costs. So do foods that are rare.

To find the world’s most expensive restaurant, 24/7 Tempo consulted numerous consumer and financial websites, including The Daily Meal, the Guide Michelin, GQ Australia, Fine Dining Lovers, Go Banking Rates, Groove Wallet, Work and Money and Wealthy Gorilla. From them, we compiled a long list of establishments considered to be the priciest on three continents.
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Next we consulted the restaurant websites and local review sites to determine the cost of the most expensive meal served at each, whether with a fixed-price menu or à la carte (the latter is often more expensive for fewer courses). Prices are for one diner and do not include tax (where applicable), tip (though some European restaurants include a service charge in the meal cost) or beverages (except where otherwise noted). Prices are subject to change.

This universe gave us a broad net to find the single most expensive restaurant. It turned out that the most expensive one in the world is SubliMotion in Ibiza, Spain. The approximate price there for a dinner for one, food only, is $2,380.

Click here to read about the world’s most expensive restaurants.
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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.